Description: This article covers subjects discussed at the 2011 Living To 100 Symposium. Included were the real potential of a material extension of life and economic challenges associated such an occurrence.

Description: Pricing longevity swap reinsurance transactions consists of a number of different actuarial tasks, each of which hides potential pitfalls. The article outlines the pricing process, which includes a detailed analysis of current mortality experience of the portfolio to be transferred, choice and calibration of an appropriate model for mortality improvement trends and the calculation of a risk margin which reflects the uncertainty associated with the pricing best-estimate, which includes mis-estimation risk, model risk, longevity basis risk and stochastic uncertainty.

Description: This article contains a synopsis of the author's presentation at the 2011 Living to 100 symposium. The presentation discusses the aging of the population in India and its effect on the Indian economy.

Description: Using population data, mortality rates are projected for people who will attain age 80 in the future. Finally, the distribution of the maximum age at death that will be attained by a Canadian is investigated.

Description: Discussion of paper presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium. Discusses paper by Guo and Wang on the use of data mining to determine the key factors affecting mortality rates at older ages.

Description: The abstract for the paper Impact of Aging Populations, Part 2 - High Age Implications of Post-Retirement Risks

Description: Discussion among experts. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: We propose an age-shift model to modify the LC model and deal with the problem of parameters. The proposed method attains smaller estimation errors with respect to mean absolute percentage error or mean square error. We also apply the proposed age-shift model to the mortality rates of these four countries to evaluate the longevity risk in annuity products by measuring life expectancy.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This paper focuses on the issues confronting employers as they seek to manage their talent in a country with an aging population. It focuses on the goals of employers and employees and examines patterns of work as the population ages.